HUMAN BODY SPECIALLY CREATED, ETC. 113 



ject to " secondary causes,' namely, the factors of 

 evolution. But he does not profess to have any special 

 knowledge of the Divine Mind ; nor does he pretend 

 to know more of it than any other man does. 



Perhaps Lamarck (1744-1829) was the first to 

 suggest the theory of spontaneous generation, in the 

 sense in which these words are now used, and the 

 evolution of species. (Encyclopedia Britannica 14, 

 p. 232.) Down to his time, no one doubted the 

 Mosaic story of the creation. Belief in the theory of 

 special creation was well nigh universal down to the 

 publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, in 1859. 

 This belief was shared alike by both scientists and 

 laymen. But shortly after the publication of that 

 work, belief in the theory of organic evolution became 

 a fad among educated people; and that belief was 

 supposed to indicate intellectual power and independ- 

 ence of thought. 



Sec. 39. Proposition 6. Human Body is 

 Either Specially Created or Spon- 

 taneously Generated, Which? 



According to the evolutionist and materialist, the 

 reproduction of the human body from a fertilized 

 ovum is, in substance and effect, the same thing as 

 spontaneous generation of such a body from inorganic 

 matter. The work to be done in the one case is identi- 

 cally the same as that to be done in the other. In fact 



